Per Diem for October 2019: Death

Per Diem: Daily Haiku for October 2019 features Anna Maris’ collection on the theme of ‘death’. This is what Anna has to say by way of an introduction to her theme:

The seasons are a fundamental subject in haiku, integral to the form, where birth, growth, decline and death signifies not only the cycle of the year, but often also our own brief human lives. The significance of death as a theme is universal to us as humans, and something that we spend our lives fearing, exploring and coming to terms with. At the end of October, death has its own celebrations in All Hallows’ Eve, Samhain, Höstblot, Halloween and Dias Muertas. But death is also related to light, and so we return to it during this, for many, dark month of the year.

This struck me in many ways. Is it a simple walk through the woods at the magnificent time of bluebells? Is this a couple where one of them is not as enamoured of wildlife as the other partner? Is it about loss, perhaps the further loss of childhood when we lose not just one parent but both parents?
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The more I read the poem the more layers, from a partner who might have left to get something practical, but missed a particular sighting, a moment that will have to be let go. Or something about letting go of childhood, and do we really have to let go of everything?
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From:
Travelling the single line of haiku – one line haiku / monoku / monostichhttps://area17.blogspot.com/2016/12/travelling-single-line-of-haiku-one.html

A wonderful theme because it is such a strong and true fact that we carry with us from the second we are born. We are alive but for such a short, regardless of the length of our individual life term.
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my inevitable death mayflies
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i.m. Terry Pratchett OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015)
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Alan Summers
One-line haiku published by Bones journal issue 6 (March 15, 2015)